The New Humanities Reader

The New Humanities Reader presents 33 challenging and important essays from diverse fields that address current global issues. This cross-disciplinary anthology helps readers attain the analytical skills necessary to become informed citizens. Ideas and research from wide-ranging sources provide opportunities for students to synthesize materials and formulate their own ideas and solutions. The thought-provoking selections engage students and encourage students to make connections for themselves as they think, read, and write about the events that are likely to shape their lives. The Third Edition contains 14 new readings, drawn from the latest books and journals. These selections continue in the text's pattern of being current, globally oriented, interdisciplinary, and probing. Front Cover Contents Thematic Contents Preface New Humanities for New Times: The Search for Coherence Knowledge in Depth and Knowledge of the World Creative Reading: From Explicit to Implicit Connective Thinking: The Search for a Shared Horizon Writing to Tell, Writing to See Developing a Position The Spirit of the New Humanities Web Site Acknowledgments David Abram The Ecology of Magic: A Personal Introduction to the Inquiry Leila Ahmed On Becoming an Arab Andrew J. Bacevich The Real World War IV Jonathan Boyarin Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eighth Street Shul Bryan Caplan "Market Fundamentalism" Versus the Religion of Democracy The Charge of Market Fundamentalism Democratic Fundamentalism Will the Real Fundamentalism Please Stand Up? The Case of the Policy Analysis Market Private Choice as an Alternative to Democracy and Dictatorship Voter Irrationality, Markets, and Democracy Correcting Democracy? Economics: What Is It Good For? Conclusion Amy Chua A World on the Edge Devra Davis Presumed Innocent Phones and Our Cells Annie Dillard The Wreck of Time: Taking Our Century's Measure I II Ill IV V VI VII Susan Faludi The Naked Citadel Daniel Gilbert Immune to Reality Looking Forward to Looking Backward Little Triggers The Intensity Trigger The Inescapability Trigger Explaining Away Onward Malcolm Gladwell The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime 1 2 3 4 5 William Greider Work Rules Henry Jenkins Why Heather Can Write: Media Literacy and the Harry Potter Wars Hogwarts and All Rewriting School Defense Against Dark Arts Muggles for Harry Potter What Would Jesus Do with Harry Potter? Steven Johnson The Myth of the Ant Queen Christine Kenneally You Have Gestures Jon Krakauer Selections from Into the Wild The Alaska Interior The Stampede Trail Beth Loffreda Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder Tanya M. Luhrmann Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity The Ethnography Cognitive/Linguistic Knowledge: The Lexicon Cognitive/Linguistic Knowledge: Syntax Cognitive/Linguistic Knowledge: Conversation Narrative Metakinesis Relational Practice Discussion Azar Nafasi Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Tim O'Brien How to Tell a True War Story Virginia Postrel Surface and Substance Pietra Rivoli Dogs Snarling Together: How Politics Came to Rule the Global Apparel Trade Chinese T-Shirts versus American Jobs A Taste of the (Crazy) Rules in 2003 Snarling Together Auggie Goes to Washington Making Deals and Making Exceptions Jobs for Bureaucrats Unity 1985 to 1990 Snarling Back Gone On Long Enough The Slow Unraveling Oliver Sacks The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See Charles Siebert An Elephant Crackup? Peter Singer and Jim Mason Meat and Milk Factories The Poop on Pigs A Pig's Life "Wayne Bradley," Iowa Pig Producer Making Bacon Profitability and Animal Welfare Tracking Down Jake's Milk The Beef Industry Australian Beef Slaughter Rebecca Solnit The Solitary Stroller and the City Sandra Steingraber War Gregory Stock The Enhanced and the Unenhanced The Enhanced Humans and Posthumans: Our Evolutionary Future The Tensions of Living Together Breeds Apart A World Aborning Martha Stout When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday Deborah Tannen The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue Roots of the Adversarial Approach to Knowledge Onward, Christian Soldiers Sharing Time: Early Training in School Integrating Women in the Classroom Army Learning by Fighting Graduate School as Boot Camp The Culture of Critique: Attack in the Academy Believing as Thinking The Socratic Method - Or Is It? Knowledge as Warring Camps Question the Basic Assumption Consensus Through Dissension? Who Will Be Left to Lead? The Cost in Human Spirit Getting Beyond Dualism Moving from Debate to Dialogue Edward Tenner Another Look Back, and a Look Ahead The Ambiguity of Disaster The Automobile and Revenge Effects Conservation of Catastrophe? Retreating from Intensity Robert Thurman Wisdom Preamble: Selflessness Problem: Misknowledge and Self-Preoccupation Practice: Trying to Find Your "I" Jean Twenge An Army of One: Me Boomers and Their "Journey" into the Self The Matter-of-Fact Self-Focus of Generation Me Changes in Self-Esteem: What the Data Say The Self-Esteem Curriculum Girls Are Great Self-Esteem and Academic Performance Are Self-Esteem Programs Good or Bad? Changes in Narcissism Credits Author and Title Index Back Cover

the New Humanities Reader Presents 25 Challenging And Important Essays From Diverse Fields That Address Current Global Issues. This Cross-disciplinary Anthology Helps Readers Attain The Analytical Skills Necessary To Become Informed Citizens. Ideas And Research From Wide-ranging Sources Provide Opportunities For Students To Synthesize Materials And Formulate Their Own Ideas And Solutions. The Thought-provoking Selections Engage Students And Encourage Students To Make Connections For Themselves As They Think, Read, And Write About The Events That Are Likely To Shape Their Lives. The Fourth Edition Includes Nearly 25% New Reading Selections, Which Continue To Make This Text Current, Globally Oriented, Interdisciplinary, And Probing.